Juliet Grames
Associate Editor
Juliet Grames is an associate editor for The Overlook Press, a mid-sized independent publishing company in New York, where she has been happily editing and acquiring fiction and narrative nonfiction for the last two years.
Out of the 15-20 titles she acquires and edits a year, she works on a very small number of fiction titles, most of them women's fiction with a strong multicultural bent, so she can devote special time and attention to them editorially. She works with each author very carefully on development and line editing.
Among the titles she has acquired and edited at Overlook are Book Sense Pick, The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte, by leading thriller author Laura Joh Rowland; the critically acclaimed Enlightenment, by translator Maureen Freely; Sophie Brody nominee Sima's Undergarments for Women, by Ilana Stanger-Ross; the feminist media critique, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do about It, by Dr. M. Gigi Durham, which was featured in such diverse venues as People magazine, Time, and Fox news; and the forthcoming Repeat after Me by critically acclaimed memoirist, poet, and Chinese soap opera star Rachel DeWoskin.
She began her career in editorial at John Wiley & Sons after spending a year at the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. Before that, she worked as a bookseller at Borders for five years, in her college library for two years, and even in the public library of her tiny hometown. In her free time, she reads.
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